...need no repentance. Such is the common way of understanding that declaration of our Lord, that there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. — J would not unnecessarily deviate from received expositions of the holy scriptures. Yet I cannot...

...strength, and he gave it, and I prayed without ceasing, till that text came fresh into my mind, There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons, that need no repentance. I was then I know not how. I thought Christ stood in the front, and all the angels behind, and on each...

...took my stand in Epworth market -place, and preached on those words in the gospel for the day, There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no. repentance. It seemed as if very few, if any, of the sinnelrsl, 'then present, were nnmoved. .,', , . • I v Monday...

...and admiration flow forth in none of the forms peculiar to redeemed sinners. We are ftold that "there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance." And who does not see, that when such a population becomes holy, such rebels become children, such outcasts...

...repent, says Christ to his disciples, Luke xiii. 3, ye shuli all likewise perish; and again, There is joy in Heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance. Luke xv. 7. In these passages, and indeed in many others, Remission, Life, and Salvation, are indubitably,...

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...sins." 1 John ii. 1, 2. " Christ Jesus came into the world to save siuners." 1 Tim. i. 15. " There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine 'just persons that need no repentance." Luke xv. 7. " God be merciful to me a sinner!'' Luke xviii. 13. , " Hide thy face from my sins, and...

...repent,' says Christ to his disciples, Luke xiii. 3, ' ye shall all likewise perish :' and again, ' There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance,' Luke xv. 7. In this passage, and indeed in many others, remission, life, and salvation are indubitably...

...end of Christ's errand ? Did he not come into the world to save sinners? Does he not tell you there is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance ? Did not the poor prodigal in the parable think even as you do? 'Father, I have sinned against heaven...

...but no sound was heard, either from them or the crowded audience, after the text was named : " There is joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more...than over ninety and nine just persons, that need not repentance." The power of the Lord was eminently present, and most of the prisoners were in tears....